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Tobiah

#4,842 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh is good

Tobiah has been given to 683 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #4,842 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Tobiah, 2025

1 in 158,000

Tobiah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tobiah: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is good

Hebrew

What Tobiah means

Tobiah means “Yahweh is good”, associated with Toviyyah.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Hebrew name טוֹבִיָּה (Toviyyah, “Yahweh is good”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Tobiah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tobiah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Tobiah comes through Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 683 boys were recorded with the name Tobiah between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,775 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,202 in 2020 to #4,842 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,869 in 2015 to #4,842 in 2025.

How common is Tobiah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,842
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tobiah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tobiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tobiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tobiah was born before 2010 — so the typical Tobiah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
683
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (243).

Is Tobiah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,309
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+360
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+27
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 2016 (39)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,775
1977

Spellings of Tobiah

Tobiah is not the most common spelling — Josiah is, with 76.4% against Tobiah's 0.35%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tobiah is used

Across 1910–2025, Tobiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,791 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tobiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tobiah around the world

Where Tobiah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tobiah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,842
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 360
Best rank ever
#2,775
1977
Peak year
2016
39 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
683
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Tobiah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tobiah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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